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When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
Fine art is knowledge made visible (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live the life of a savage. I must be free, even of governments. The people have my sympathies. I must address them directly (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair’s breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art’s sake (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and least of all, to any regime except the regime of liberty (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota (Gustave Courbet Quotes)
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired (Gustave Courbet Quotes)